UCLA Tunes Up by Beating Germans, 100-64

UCLA defeated TTL Bamberg of Germany, 100-64, in an exhibition game Tuesday night at Pauley Pavilion in its final tuneup before Friday night’s regular season opener in the Great Alaska Shootout.

Tracy Murray scored 20 points, Don MacLean scored 18 and Darrick Martin had 17 points and eight assists for the Bruins, who will play UC Irvine in the first round of the tournament at Anchorage, Alaska.

A crowd of 4,787 saw the Bruins outscore the German club team by 18 points in each half and outrebound the visitors, 54-37. Forward Mitchell Butler led UCLA with 13 rebounds; MacLean had nine, Murray eight.

“I think we’re ready to go,” Coach Jim Harrick said. “I think the players are excited about going up there to play.”

Eldridge Recasner, an All-Pac-10 guard at Washington last season, scored 18 points to lead TTL Bamberg, which is 0-8 on its U.S. tour, including losses at Arizona, Arizona State and UC Santa Barbara.

Bruin Notes

Freshman Rodney Zimmerman probably will not play in the Great Alaska Shooout after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right knee 2 1/2 weeks ago. Zimmerman said he hoped to play in the Bruins’ home opener against Loyola Marymount Dec. 2 at Pauley Pavilion. . . . Said Harrick: “I thought Darrick Martin played as well as he’s ever played for us.”

Freshman guard Shon Tarver scored 12 points in 17 minutes for UCLA. . . . Keith Owens, who missed two weeks of practice because of a back injury, had four points and five rebounds in 20 minutes and said afterward: “It’s not a pain that’s going to keep me from playing.”

Coach Jim Harrick was disappointed in UCLA’s inability to land Cherokee Parks, a 6-foot-11 center from Marina High School in Huntington Beach. Parks signed with Duke last week. “Obviously, it’s a big blow,” Harrick said. “His mother and grandparents promised that he’d come on a visit and wouldn’t make a decision until later, maybe not until spring.

“I just didn’t appreciate the way it happened, the way it turned out. I thought maybe we were owed more than that for the time and energy we spent on it, (more than) just a phone call saying he was going somewhere else.”

In an earlier game, the Bulgarian national women’s team beat UCLA, 82-72.